Apprentice
Film Movement | Release Date: March 3, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijFeb 28, 2017
One of Apprentice’s strongest selling points is how, in a very compact yet pleasingly dense way, it takes viewers into both the world of the executioners and the executed criminals’ family members who remain behind, two often almost ignored categories in films touching on capital punishment. Read full review
90
Screen DailyLisa NesselsonFeb 28, 2017
Tightly focused and ambitious in its multiple themes, the tale touches on how the death penalty radiates out to affect the living. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineChuck BowenFeb 27, 2017
Writer-director Boo Junfeng casually reinvigorates the prison drama, boiling its elements down to their primal essence. Read full review
80
The New York TimesStephen HoldenMar 2, 2017
At first Apprentice seems to be a basic revenge film in which Aiman stalks the man who killed his father. But it becomes psychologically more complex. Read full review
80
Village VoiceNick SchagerMar 2, 2017
In a finale rife with twisted feelings of resentment, fury, and self-loathing, the film transforms into a grave meditation on the corrosive shadow cast by the decisions, and crimes, of yesterday. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeFeb 28, 2017
The movie feels a little too sparse and literal in places. Read full review
42
The Film StageEthan VestbyMar 2, 2017
While not without the occasional jolt of a sudden execution, the film feels so wholly tell and not show. Its left-wing politics about toxic masculinity bleeding into the justice system are so much a given that it’s just a dead-weight experience to watch. Read full review
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